Improvement in boot and shoe buttons



G. H. W. CURTIS. Boot and Sh0e Butt0n.

No. 221,397. Patented Nov. 11, I879.

7%?5; e sps 6 6, Z2 ae 91/3701,

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. GEQRGE H. W. CURTIS, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOT AND SHOE BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,397, dated November 11, 1879 application filed April 23, 1879.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GEORGE H. W. CURTIS, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improved Boot and Shoe Button, which is fully set forth in thefollowing specification and accompanying. drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the shank and screw combined; Fig. 2, a view of the shank; Fig. 3, a view of the screw; Fig. 4, the button complete and fastened in leather ready for use; Fig. 5, a side view of the button without the leather.

This invention relates to papier-maoh buttons for boots, shoes, and other purposes, capable of ready attachment in a neat and very secure manner by means of a shank, SOfOI'II'lGd that it can be permanently embedded in the papier-mach.

A represents the shank; B, the screw; 0,

the elongated head; a a, the points thereof;

1), the button, and E E the hooks.

Shank A is inserted in the papier-maoh button D while the latter is in a soft state, so as to adhere closely about the hooks E E, becoming a permanentattachment thereto when it has hardened.

The projecting part of shank A is provided with a female screw, into which the male screw of the leather-confined portion of the shank fits.

ThepartB, on which is the male screw, is inserted in the leather or material to be but- .toned, and points a a are pressed into it.

rial, metal shank A, provided with hooks, and

head 0, provided with attaching-points, adapted to operate together, as described.

GEO. H. \V. CURTIS.

Witnesses:

S. J GORDON, JoHN W. BlPLEY. 

